Thursday March 15, 2012, CBC Radio, The Current
Well it did take a decade and piles of money for the International Criminal Court to get a conviction. And now the Congolese warlord who destroyed the lives of so many children forcing them to be child soldiers or sex slaves will be locked away. But of course others like him still operate. So is this a blow to impunity? Or just an anomaly that underlines … most of them get-away? Today, we’re asking just how much justice we get with the ICC.
Erna Paris was the author of seven acclaimed books of literary non-fiction and the winner of twelve national and international writing awards. More »
Erna Paris was invested into the Order of Canada by Governor General David Johnston in September 2016.South African court orders arrest of Sudanese leader
CBC News
June 14, 2015
International Criminal Court expert Erna Paris says the detention of Omar al-Bashir in South Africa for alleged war crimes is unprecedented.
Reconciliation South Africa
CBC Radio 1
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Erna Paris speaks with the CBC's Matt Galloway about Canadians coming to terms with a shameful legacy, this country's residential schools and their impact on First Nations communities.
From Tolerance to Tyranny
CBC Radio 1, 9:00 pm,
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Christians, Muslims and Jews lived together in relative harmony in medieval Spain. Then the Spanish Inquisition came along with its use of terror and racism, turning a pluralistic society into a police state. Writer Erna Paris first explored this history for IDEAS in 1995. In a new take, she calls what happened in Spain “a cautionary tale for today.”
